Johney Green Jr.

Bio

Johney Green Jr. serves as the director of Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), and is president and CEO of Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC (BSRA). Green is responsible for the management, operation and strategic direction of the laboratory. SRNL is a multi-program national laboratory with an annual operating budget of about $400 million, and the lab is leading research and development institution for the Offices of Environmental Management and Legacy Management at the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Weapons and Nonproliferation programs for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

Green formerly served as the Associate Laboratory Director for Mechanical and Thermal Engineering Sciences at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he was responsible for research and development to enable technology innovations in energy efficiency, sustainable mobility and renewable power. Green created NREL’s Flatirons Campus, building a premier multi-program research campus. Green also spearheaded development of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems.

Prior to his 8-year tenure at NREL, Green held several leadership roles during a 21-year span at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) including Director of the Energy and Transportation Science division and Group leader for Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research. During his tenure ORNL developed the Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy demonstration project, a model of innovative vehicle-to-grid integration technologies and next generation manufacturing processes.

Green is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an SAE International fellow. He serves on the Defense Science Board and several advisory boards including those at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Memphis. Green was the recipient of a National GEM Consortium Fellowship and previously served as chair of the board for the National GEM Consortium. He previously served on the advisory board at the University of Tennessee. Green holds two U.S. patents in combustion science and has an h-index of 34 with more than 4,540 citations.

Green holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Memphis. He earned a master’s and doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.